Associative memory

Associative memory may refer to:

• Associative memory (psychology), the ability of human memory to associate items such as a person with his or her name
• Transderivational search in psychology or cybernetics, a search for a fuzzy match across a broad field
• Associative storage or content-addressable memory, a type of computer memory used in certain very high speed searching applications
• Bidirectional associative memory, a type of recurrent neural network
• Autoassociative memory, all computer memories that enable one to retrieve a piece of data from only a tiny sample of itself
• Associative Memory Base, computer memory which imitates human memory by storing connections and counts in their context
• Hopfield network, a form of recurrent artificial neural network